How Jimmy's made the journey from workhouse to 21st century hospital - The Guardian 19th June 2008

Sixty years ago a former workhouse and infirmary for the paupers of Leeds became part of the new National Health Service. St James's hospital, surrounded by the back-to-back terraces of some of the city's most impoverished workers, was already 100 years old. "It may be thought by some that because of its obsolescence and bad situation, the whole of the hospital should disappear and be transferred to another site on the outskirts of the city," wrote Dr J Johnstone Jervis, the city's medical officer of health in 1944.

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